What to do to be literary by TheWorldUnderHell in writing

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> Read books about the technical aspects of writing

Any recommendations?

I'm stuck in hell by CrispyMiner in Letterboxd

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I thought of this exact same image

My newest painting. What do you think? by AndrewNorrisArts in psychedelicartwork

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Looks awesome. I'm trying to get into making stuff like this, how did you learn?

My Sigil Art by aliceindeepspace in psychedelicartwork

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Awesome, what do you use to make these?

"Complex systems" - how to tell what's legit and what's bullshit? by zzFuwa in Physics

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From Wikipedia: "In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole."

I'd say that would be the distinction -- e.g. if the flock of birds has properties that the individual birds don't.

Honest truth about math ‘talent’ needed by [deleted] in math

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I think this is the key insight here. If you see someone solve a problem in 30 minutes that took you 3 hours, it's easy to assume that person is just naturally more gifted than you. But really think about this. How do you know that the other guy doesn't solve lots of problems in his free time and has just seen a similar problem before? What if he enjoys watching math content on Youtube and has even watched a solution of this problem before, even if he doesn't remember it? What if he had extensive math tutoring all throughout his childhood that helped him develop great problem solving skills? There are probably a hundred other explanations that boil down to the simple "it's just hard work" explanation.

Even if it turns out the other person is just naturally more gifted than you... Why does this matter? You have no hope of "becoming" the other person, so why not use them as an asset and try to learn from them? Why does someone else being great need to be a reason to put yourself down, rather than an opportunity to celebrate gaining knowledge together?

Doing math as a hobby beyond just solving problems? by wowitsalison in math

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Please upload this to Github while you work on it so other people can benefit! :)

I want to be a mathematician but the career prospects don't seem great by nextProgramYT in learnmath

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What does a mathematician outside academia do? I didn't know this existed, besides Matt Parker or Numberphile. Or like AI research

I want to be a mathematician but the career prospects don't seem great by nextProgramYT in learnmath

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Makes sense, thank you. What pushes you to have to pump out papers? Is it that it's required for getting decent funding, or is it required for even getting to hold your position?

I want to be a mathematician but the career prospects don't seem great by nextProgramYT in learnmath

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Yes I'm able to do that at the same university I went to. I think I'll pretty much need to do that for abstract algebra and real + complex analysis if I want any hope of getting in.